eCommerce & Web Solutions Newsletter

Welcome to our monthly eCommerce & Web Solutions newsletter.

This month you can win a Google AdWords voucher for £30 of online advertising.

We review a new book setting out "5 Simple Steps to Improve Your Website's Search Engine Ranking" by local author Pat Bensky.

We also provide a warning about large companies jumping on the bandwagon to provide "free" website reviews and advice.

Competition to Win AdWords Vouchers

We have four Google AdWords vouchers each worth £30 that we will give to the first four of our existing subscribers to recommend new subscribers who sign-up to our free newsletters.

Note that these AdWords vouchers can only be used for new AdWords accounts that are less than 14 days old. Only one voucher per customer who must be based in the UK or Ireland. An activation fee of £5 may apply when opening a new AdWords account. Vouchers only valid until 30 April 2008.

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Book Review

"5 Simple Steps to Improve Your Website's Search Engine Ranking"  by Pat Bensky

If you have a website then you have almost certainly been contacted by companies offering to optimise your site for search engines and guaranteeing you a high ranking in exchange for paying them lots of money. They always make Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) sound like black magic that only they can perform. Well, the good news is that armed with this book, just about anyone can achieve the same results without paying third party companies a penny!

 The book is a slimline paperback comprising about 40 pages. Our first impression was that you don't get a lot for your money, but this impression was soon dispelled when it became apparent that this book contains exactly the information you need without any of the extraneous waffle that one often finds in these type of books.

The book has simple to read sections dealing with each of the essentials of SEO including web robots (spiders & web crawlers), search engine submission, keywords, meta-tags, page content, links & site maps; as well as references to useful resources. 

The author Pat Bensky lives locally in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and has many years of experience with Search Engine Optimisation. Her knowledge and experience of what works and what doesn't is encapsulated in this book.

This is an excellent book that is very clear with easy to follow explanations of what is often made out to be a difficult subject. We are happy to recommend this book to our customers and subscribers.  

Order this book with free postage and a free magnetic bookmark...
 

Free Website Reviews

We bring you a warning about large companies jumping on the bandwagon to provide "free" website reviews and advice. You need to be very careful to check that what they offer really is independent advice because we have found that after delivering a brief report, many of these companies want you to buy their services to "fix" the problems that they have found - hardly independent!

Furthermore, in some cases their own websites do not even comply with the latest regulations, which calls into question the value of the advice they are likely to give to other businesses.

We were one of the first companies to provide a fully independent, no-strings-attached service to small businesses based in the East of England and East Midlands regions.

more information about our website analysis service...
 

Actinic Version 9

Actinic has announced version 9 of their award winning eCommerce software package. The new version builds upon Version 8 and includes a range of enhancements designed to give increased flexibility, improved usability and greater cross-channel integration.

Actinic is the premiere eCommerce package designed for small and medium sized businesses in the UK. It is highly customisable and includes an unparalleled number of facilities and options, making it the most flexible system that we have come across at an affordable price, more details

We are an Accredited Actinic Web Designer and we have extensive experience of developing and enhancing eCommerce websites based upon the Actinic package.

We'll tell you more about Version 9 when we get our hands on it, although as with all new software, we are waiting for the first bug-fix release before using it in earnest.

more information about our eCommerce solutions...
 

Contact us if you would like any further information about the items in this newsletter.

Please let us have any feedback you might have, and also let us know if there are any articles you would like to see covered in future issues by sending an email to sales@wise.co.uk.

Best regards,

Tim Weaver